At least he likes the Pistons.
I also like the Pistons and it sounds like Brandon and I have some common ground there.

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That's incredibly coincidental.

The Pistons have sort of put themselves in typical Lions territory... in that it doesn't really matter what position we draft because every position needs an upgrade... except SG, which is the equivalent of wide receiver.

We need a QB and a defensive line the most. But we also need special teams.

Some of the mock drafts I just looked at on nba.com have him going as high as #3.

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Yep most have him going 3-4 so no matter how much he loves the Pistons, we don't get him, unless fellow Wildcat Prince convinces Joe/Tom/whomever is incharge at piston.org to trade Stuckey or Rip+ change to the Jazz or Cavs....

The Pistons have sort of put themselves in typical Lions territory... in that it doesn't really matter what position we draft because every position needs an upgrade... except SG, which is the equivalent of wide receiver.

We need a QB and a defensive line the most. But we also need special teams.

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Yea, I understand this generational historical reference. But the last name is not Ford. Then again, who really knows.

Since I've never seen any the foreigners play, I'm hoping we draft one of them.

The Pistons best strategy is positioning themselves for the 2012 draft. Drafting one of those foreign big men will guarantee more sucktitude - especially since we'll be a lot younger with the loss of Tay (thank god for that). Also, at that time, Rip will be an expiring contract and much more tradeable.

The Pistons should have a "let's hope we're pretty good by 2013, at which time we can have the honor of being decimated in the early playoffs by one of the three teams that gets enough top colluding stars on their roster" strategy.

The Pistons should have a "let's hope we're pretty good by 2013, at which time we can have the honor of being decimated in the early playoffs by one of the three teams that gets enough top colluding stars on their roster" strategy.

This really is a dumb-ass league.

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The Bulls looked like they were one scorer away from beating the Heat and the C's had a chance if they kept/had their thought to be size advantage.

The budget is pretty tight. I took a quick look at the salary situation and going in to the 2011/12 season we have 48.3M tied up in this awesome crew:

Bynum, White
Rip, Bengo
Daye
CV, JMax
GM, Ben?

Our two picks adds 2.6M (8th) and 0.5M (33rd) so now we have 51.4M. The current salary cap is at 58.0M which leaves us with 6.6M to spend on FA and expiring contracts. If we sign both picks we have 11 players and 10 if Ben chooses to retire but that would add 2.2M to our wallet. Here are the expiring contracts sorted by what I've registered as the general PF.com view.

Keepers
JJ

Debatables
Stuckey
Wilcox
Summers

Goners
T-Mac
Prince

Feel free to split the 6.6M on the guys you want to keep! We need a few guys to fill up the roster so the situation looks a bit worse than what I thought and this is with the 2010/11 cap.

The budget is pretty tight. I took a quick look at the salary situation and going in to the 2011/12 season we have 48.3M tied up in this awesome crew:

Bynum, White
Rip, Bengo
Daye
CV, JMax
GM, Ben?

Our two picks adds 2.6M (8th) and 0.5M (33rd) so now we have 51.4M. The current salary cap is at 58.0M which leaves us with 6.6M to spend on FA and expiring contracts. If we sign both picks we have 11 players and 10 if Ben chooses to retire but that would add 2.2M to our wallet. Here are the expiring contracts sorted by what I've registered as the general PF.com view.

Keepers
JJ

Debatables
Stuckey
Wilcox
Summers

Goners
T-Mac
Prince

Feel free to split the 6.6M on the guys you want to keep! We need a few guys to fill up the roster so the situation looks a bit worse than what I thought and this is with the 2010/11 cap.

If we were to draft Valanciunas/Biyombo, resign JJ at 4M/y (or whatever he's getting, I have no idea after him being out for the season), Stuckey at 6M/y, and use the MLE on a center we could assemble this juggernaut of a team for a few millions below 70M:

If we were to draft Valanciunas/Biyombo, resign JJ at 4M/y (or whatever he's getting, I have no idea after him being out for the season), Stuckey at 6M/y, and use the MLE on a center we could assemble this juggernaut of a team for a few millions below 70M:

If we were to draft Valanciunas/Biyombo, resign JJ at 4M/y (or whatever he's getting, I have no idea after him being out for the season), Stuckey at 6M/y, and use the MLE on a center we could assemble this juggernaut of a team for a few millions below 70M: